Sunday, December 28. 2014

As stated in last article, I've packaged FDW binaries for PostgreSQL 9.4 windows 32-bit and 64-bit and added in the ogr_fdw one. These we've tested with the standard EDB VS built PostgreSQL windows installs and work fine with those.

Saturday, December 27. 2014

This christmas I received something very special from Paul Ramsey and Even Roualt
as detailed in Foreign Data Wrappers for PostGIS.
It's been something I've been patiently waiting for for 4 years. I think it has a few issues I'm working to replicate, but overall it's much faster than I expected and pretty slick.

So why is ogr_fdw so special, because GDAL/OGR is an avenue to many data sources, NOT JUST GEOSPATIAL. It's the NOT JUST that I am most excited about. Though the focus is geospatial you can use it with non-geospatial datasources,
as we described a long time ago in OGR2OGR for data loading

What is new about the latest 1.1.0 release is that there is now support for the Oracle SDO_GEOMETRY type that allows you to map the most common geometry types POINT, LINE, POLYGON, MULTIPOINT, MULTILINE and MULTIPOLYGON to PostGIS geometry type. Much of the spatial plumbing work was done by Vincent Mora of Oslandia. If we have any Windows Oracle users out there, yes there are binaries available for windows for PostgreSQL 9.1- 9.4 for both 32-bit and 64-bit. The FDW does have a dependency on the OCI.dll which I think comes shipped with Oracle products. Unfortunately, we are not Oracle users so can't kick the tires.